The sentencing of deposed Spring Valley Trustee Vilair Fonvil for corruption will likely be delayed Tuesday as he's hired an appeals attorney to fight to have his conviction dismissed.

While facing a maximum of 15 years in prison, Fonvil will ask County County Judge Kevin Russo to approve Charles Holster as his attorney and release his trial counsel, Kevin Dunlap and Deborah Wolikow Loewenberg of New City, from the case.

Holster said Friday that he would ask Russo for a month's adjournment of sentencing so he could study the case and file post-trial motions. He declined further comment.

The post-verdict motions would include a request for Russo to dismiss his November conviction of Fonvil on felony charges covering the theft of $11,000 in village funds for a summer camp program in 2016.

The court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday morning at the County Courthouse.

Executive Assistant District Attorney Richard Kennison Moran said defense requests to have verdicts dismissed and file post verdict motions are part of the process. He otherwise declined comment.

Russo convicted Fonvil on Nov. 17 after a non-jury trial of second-degree receiving reward for official misconduct as a public official; third-degree grand larceny as a crime of public corruption; third-degree corrupting the government; and fourth-degree money laundering.

The felony convictions ended Fonvil's tenure on the village board, because a convicted felon cannot serve in an elected government position. Fonvil, 54, had been a trustee since December 2013, winning election twice.

During the trial, Moran argued Fonvil pocketed $11,000 in village funds through an elaborate scheme using $27,000 Fonvil had earmarked for the camp program.

Moran said Fonvil and Depas first created a $8,000 slush fund by using village vans rather than a bus company to drive the children to camp and hired only two bus monitors when the village financed six drivers

Moran told the judge that three people later cashed checks for Fonvil and Depas.

Fonvil testified that people involved with the summer program cashed checks and gave him money to repay him for loans or fronting their salaries. He said he set up that system when Depas refused to pay people unless they signed W-2 forms .

Fonvil, who is married, said he and Depas had a personal relationship and he lent her and another village employee money to pay their rent. The trial also brought out evidence that Fonvil lived primarily in New Jersey when he should have lived in Spring Valley to serve on the village board.

Depas has since been charged with welfare fraud, after being arrested on a separate charge of hitting then-Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme in late November, less than two weeks after being acquitted by Russo.

Depas and Fonvil blamed Delhomme for causing problems with the summer camp program.